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A. MILLS.

BELT FOR HOLDING CARTRIDGES AND CARTRIDGE MAeAzIfiEs.

N0. 399,9 16. Patented Mar. 19,1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANSON HILLS, OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY.

BELT FOR HOLDING CARTRIDGES AND CARTRIDGE-MAGAZINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,916, dated March 19, 1889.

Application filed December 15,1888. Serial No. 298,759- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANSON MILLS, of the United States Army, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cartridge Belts or Bands and Means for Securing Magazine-Cases therein, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is directed to belts or bands which may be worn around any portion of the person, but principally around the waist, and which are designed to hold the individual cartridgecontaining cases or receptacles for use in connection with magazineguns. It is desirable that these cases or receptacles should be on the person in a position where they can be conveniently reached, and that they should be there held securely, but at the same time in such manner thateach one as needed may be readily detached and removed from the belt. To this end I provide the belt with pockets for the reception of the magazines, and I provide for each magazine a readily-manipulated fastener composed of two membersthe one at tached to the belt or its pocket and the other attached to the magazine itself. The preferred form of fastener for my purpose is similar to a well-known form of glove-fastener, of which one part consists-of a head or ball and the other of a slightly-expansible socket. Other forms of fasteners, however, may be adopted without departure from my invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the belt in extended position embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the same belt as it appears when applied to the waist of the wearer. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section through one of the pockets and the magazine contained therein; Fig. 4 is a view of one of the magazines dc: tached. Fig. 5 is a View of that portlon of the inner face of the pocketwhich contains the socket part of the fastener.

The belt shown in the drawings 1s one provided with pockets a, for individual cartridges, as well as with larger pockets, b, for the reception of magazines A, and it IS in this form that the belt generally will be used,

although, if desired, the belt can be provided with the larger pockets, 1), only.

The particular form of magazine shown in the drawings is that which is used with what is known as the Lee magazine gun or rifle, each individual magazine containing five cartridges.

The belt, as well as its pockets, can be made of any suitable or desired material. I prefer to make it of woven fabric, having pockets integral therewith, as indicated, for example, in my patent, No. 193,613, of July 31, 1887.

The magazine receiving-pockets b can be open at both ends; but I prefer that they shall be closed at the bottom, as indicated in the drawings.

The belt at its ends is provided with double hooks B, for receiving the ends of the body of the belt in the manner indicated in Fig. 2. This feature is, however, not here claimed, but has been made the subject of separate application for Letters Patent filed by me of even date herewith.

To prevent the accidental displacement of magazines, it is necessary that they be fastened in some way to the belt. It is also desirable and necessary that the fastening device should be of such nature as will permit the ready detaching and removal of the magazines from the belt whenever desired. These conditions are fulfilled by the arrangement shown in the drawings.

The fastener consists of a ball or knob, c, which is riveted or otherwise fastened to one of the sides of the magazine A and of the slightly-expansible sheetmetal socket d, which is eyeleted or otherwise secured to the inside of the pocket in a position to come opposite to the ball 0, or the magazine when the latter is in place in the pocket. In this way the magazine is securely held in place in its pocket, and yet can be detached and removed therefrom,when occasion requires,with the utmost ease and dispatch.

I-Iaving described my invention and the manner best known to me of carrying the same into effect, what I claim, and desire to In testimony whereof I have hereunto set secure by Letters Patent, is as follows: my hand this 8th day of December, 1888.

The combination of the pocketed belt, the

magazine or cartridge -receptacle, and the ANSON MILLS.

magazine-fastener composed of two members,

of which one is carried by the magazine and \Vitnesses:

the other by the belt, substantially as and for EWELL A. DICK,

the purposes hereinbefore described. WILL E. AUGHINBAUGH. 

